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http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/05/21 ... d-browser/




lol @ opera

Doesn't Chrome send usage stats to Google? I still use Firefox. *shrug* They both seem about the same to me. IE is still a big giant fucking pig of a program. Fuck me, is M$ fuckin' retarded?

I still use Firefox (except at work where i am forced to endure the unspeakable horrors of Explorer).

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Oh boy, welcome to 2012, Memphis. Anti-MS sentiments based on the quality of their products is so 90's.

IE9 has made great strides towards web standards compatibility since the horrors of IE6. Sure, it still has a long way to go on some fronts (not in the least its horrible UI) but IE has certainly improved much over the years. The only thing is that Chrome (and as a result Firefox, to keep up with Google) have improved much more over the years.

IE might not be the shining beacon of great software coming from Microsoft, but to act like MS only makes shit products is completely misguided.

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Windows

phantasmagoria wrote:

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Windows

This
Also Office and Xbox Live (though technically a service I guess...?)

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Microsoft Security Essentials is quite good really.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Microsoft Security Essentials is quite good really.

I'm really surprised by how well it works despite being free. It's not up in your shit all the time like the rest are.

apparently, in IE10 you'll be able to pin app tabs, just like you've been able to in FF for ages

cool

IE is getting better at older standards compliance but is still pretty shit for HTML5. People using older than IE8 can stay in the internet backwaters as far as I'm concerned, they should no longer be supported.

Yeah and they should all die a fucking horrible death.

I wish I could get this worked up about what Internet browsers other people use.

I'd never use chrome. As well as facebook. Although I'd probably buy some shares if they drop another 15-20%.

I use IE8/9, FF, Chrome, and Safari. Each one has its quirks, but if I have to pick one, it'd probably be Safari...

obsidian wrote:IE is getting better at older standards compliance but is still pretty shit for HTML5. People using older than IE8 can stay in the internet backwaters as far as I'm concerned, they should no longer be supported.

Amen brotha

Ferrao10 wrote:I'd never use chrome. As well as facebook. Although I'd probably buy some shares if they drop another 15-20%.

You shouldn't post. As well as Engrish. Because no one gives a fuck.

U4EA wrote:I wish I could get this worked up about what Internet browsers other people use.

You probably never got involved in developing websites or webapps then?

ooh feel the pain of web developers

not

long live the geek opera.

"name one good software product by microsoft"

Mac OS X sponsored by Microsoft

Honestly, playing X-Wing on Windows 95 was badass. So kudos to MS.

phantasmagoria wrote:

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

Windows

lol

HomerJ wrote:I know it's a noob question, but I honestly don't know. Is there any real benefit of one browser over the next for the casual web surfer? I use Safari cause it's already preloaded on my laptop, but I've never had like a "this sucks, I want to switch browsers" type of epiphany. Do browsers really effect speed? I figured they'd all be about the same, the internet connection being the main factor.

Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, they're all decent browsers that are frequently updated to maintain web standards and have decent interfaces which work well. The browser fanboys on various forums are analogous to fanboys of operating systems, video game consoles, smart phones, sci-fi shows, etc. etc. The morons who claim that browser X is 1^-Y milliseconds faster at loading a webpage because it "feels" faster are tiresome mouthbreathers who need to have their heads stomped in and then stabbed with their own skull fragments.

The only browser that sucks is Internet Explorer, because Microsoft hadn't bothered to stick to web standards and came up with a whole bunch of proprietary stuff and ways in which it reads markup differently. Microsoft plunged the internet into a web standards dark ages for almost a decade between the fall of Netscape and the beginnings of Firebird (now rebranded as Firefox). Safari and Chrome followed suit with Firefox in sticking with standards compliance and now Microsoft is trying to play catch-up.

The biggest problem for web developers are all the people who insist on running older, broken versions of IE with all its security holes, either because they are old people stuck on computers from the 90's, or because their retarded IT departments insist on sticking with older browsers because of some antiquated in-house software that depends on a stupid ActiveX feature which no one in IT understands how it works anymore but admitting it would probably mean they get fired.

Firefox made itself suck with a broken resource-hogging update that crippled performance AND made text unreadable. Haven't used it since, that's when I switched to Chrome.

google is evil. chrome loses